Abstract:
The objective of the research areto find out the level of the students’
writing skill by using Four Square Writing Method and to know whether teaching
writing of descriptive text by using Four-Square Writing Method was effective or
not for the seventhof grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah Purworejo in the
Academic year of 2012/2013.
The subject of the study was 58 students of the seventh grade of SMP
Muhammadiyah Purworejo, which were chosen randomly. The writer took two
groups of the students as the samples using purposive sampling, one as the
experimental group and another one as the control group. The data were collected
by using essay test. The data were analyzed by t-test. The type of this research is
an experimental research.
The result of the study showed that the means of experimental group is
77.83 and it is good category. The means of the students who were taught writing
descriptive text by using Four Square Writing Method was 77.83 the means of the
students who were taught writing descriptive text without Four Square Writing
Method is 67.89. It could be seen from the final result of t-test analysis which
stated that the t-value was higher than the t-table (10.28> 2.00). There was a
difference in the students’ achievement in writing descriptive texts between
students taught using Four-Square Writing Method and those without using Four-
Square Writing Method. Having analyzed the data, the writer found that the
students’ achievement of experiment class was better than that of the control
class.
